Well, I wouldn't come to your dinner party, because if your cooking reflected your understanding of politics, the apple pie would have meat in it and the steak would be a combination of lentils and dandelion greens.
We're drifting off topic, so be kind. The reason to be nice in conversation about politics is this: If you are not nice, the other guy wins. Your audience is not the other guy, but those who overhear the conversation. Your politics ought to reveal that you are a gentleman.
I like Jeremy's argument quite well, and find it to be more lucid and mature than yours. I'll be bringing bread to dinner. Homemade. Kneaded it myself.
Do not be angry at the Libertarians. Do not be angry at the Socialists. Do not be angry at the Anarchists. Do not be angry at the Republicans or the Democrats. Do not be angry at Microsoft or Linux, Buddha or Christ.
But be fanatically angry at the ones who keep secrets, whose strategy is to pit us against each other while they reap profit from the wars.
John 18:20: "In secret have I said nothing."
-Jared